Central Park NYC Sunday January 26, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Iceland Gull, Great Blue Heron, Pied-billed Grebe, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Canada Goose - 375-400 Northern Shoveler - 280-300 Gadwall - 4 (2 male, 2 female) one of the males displaying Mallard - 54 Bufflehead - 17 Hooded Merganser - 6 Ruddy Duck - 76 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 5 American Coot - 1 Reservoir Ring-billed Gull - around 100 Herring Gull - around 80 Iceland Gull - 1 Reservoir (found by David Barrett) Great Black-backed Gull - 24 Great Blue Heron - Upper Lobe (found by Sandra Critelli) Cooper's Hawk - 2 (adult female Turtle Pond, first-winter male Ramble) Red-tailed Hawk - adult flyover Reservoir Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 males at the Pinetum Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - male Locust Grove Blue Jay - a few American Crow - 3 (Belvedere Castle & later the Great Lawn) White-breasted Nuthatch - Evodia Field feeders House Finch - 12-15 American Goldfinch - 7 White-throated Sparrow - moderate numbers Common Grackle - flock of 75 at 5th Ave. & 76th Street entrance (Bob - early) Northern Cardinal - 4 -- This was a remarkable week in the Bronx thanks to great teamwork by Patrick Horan and Richard Aracil with timely reports and excellent documentation of Greater White-fronted Goose, Razorbill, and Thick-billed Murre. Deborah Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --